The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC and BPC for Finnish HEIs.
The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.
Contact Person for the CSC is Olli Eskola.
Cost data
The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 1,044 articles published between 2018 and 2021 by 10 different institutions, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 1,655,779€ and the average fee is 1,586€. The CSC also provided some BPC data for OA monographs (not shown here).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 330 | 445856 | 1351 |
| Elsevier BV | 279 | 383372 | 1374 |
| IEEE | 83 | 129467 | 1560 |
| Springer Nature | 81 | 162748 | 2009 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 44 | 91060 | 2070 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 30 | 89329 | 2978 |
| IOP Publishing | 26 | 48585 | 1869 |
| Informa UK Limited | 18 | 40800 | 2267 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 15 | 39545 | 2636 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 14 | 27805 | 1986 |
| AIP Publishing | 13 | 28581 | 2199 |
| AAAS | 8 | 23746 | 2968 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 10887 | 1361 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 6 | 4800 | 800 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 6 | 11106 | 1851 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 5 | 11955 | 2391 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 5329 | 1066 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 7215 | 1443 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 5 | 6970 | 1394 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 1855 | 618 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 3 | 1839 | 613 |
| BioResources | 3 | 4050 | 1350 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 8613 | 2871 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4433 | 1478 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 5199 | 1733 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 2 | 3249 | 1624 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 2 | 5364 | 2682 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 3456 | 1728 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3450 | 1725 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 898 | 449 |
| Virtus Interpress | 2 | 1000 | 500 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 2535 | 2535 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 643 | 643 |
| American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 742 | 742 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 | 994 | 994 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Consulting and Training Center Key | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| De Gruyter | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1718 | 1718 |
| Edinburgh University Press | 1 | 1110 | 1110 |
| Emerald | 1 | 2648 | 2648 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2521 | 2521 |
| Informing Science Institute | 1 | 66 | 66 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 2232 | 2232 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| Mineralogical Society | 1 | 2643 | 2643 |
| MIS Quarterly | 1 | 1299 | 1299 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3751 | 3751 |
| NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL | 1 | 843 | 843 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2493 | 2493 |
| sPage.direcT | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 497 | 497 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 257 | 257 |
| University of Georgia | 1 | 340 | 340 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
